Now THERE’S a concert! I had fun seeing JCS
jarbaby
I don’t know what the world may need
But a V-8 engine’s a good start for me
Think I’ll drive and find a place to be surly
Cracker, "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)
“So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. What’s so amazing about really deep thoughts?” ~Tori Amos, Silent All These Years
“I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there, counting crows
one for sorrow
two for joy
three for girls and four for boys
five for silver
six for gold
seven for a secret never to be told
There’s a bird that nests inside you, sleeping underneath your skin
and when you open up your wings to speak, I wish you’d let me in.” ~Counting Crows, The Murder of One
“He’s convinced that I won’t eat him” ~Jane’s Addiction, My Cat’s Name is Maceo
“I am the king, the king of the world. It could have been you, but its me. I’m surprised you didn’t hear about it; it was on the cover of NewsWeek–November 1993.” ~Dan Bern, King of the World
I’ll list the Counting Crows songs first:
“And we all want something beautiful
Man, I wish I was beautiful”
Mr. Jones
“Caught some grief from a falling leaf
As she tumbled down to the dirty ground
Said I should have put her back there
If I could
And everyone needs a better day
And I’m trying to find me a better way
To get from the things I do
To the things I should”
All My Friends
“There’s a girl on a car in the parking lot
She says ‘Man, you should try to take a shot
Can’t you see my walls are crumbling?’
And she looks up at the building
She says she’s thinking of jumping
She says she’s tired of life
Everybody’s tired of something”
Round Here
“‘If it’s love’ she says
‘Then we’re gonna have to think
About the consequences’
And she can’t stop shaking
I can’t stop touching her, and
This time
When kindness falls like rain
It washes her away
And Anna begins to change her mind
‘These seconds when I’m shaking
Leave me shuddering for days’ she says
And I’m not ready for this sort of thing”
Anna Begins
“I want to be the light
That burns out your eyes
Because I know the little things about me
That would sing in the silence of
So much rejection
In every connection I make
I want to be the last thing that you hear
When you’re falling asleep”
Catapult
And, from the Ben Folds Five:
“You’ve done me no
Favor to call and be nice
Telling me I can take
Anything I like
You don’t owe me to be so polite
You’ve done no wrong
You’ve done no wrong
Get out of my sight”
Selfless, Cold and Composed
“I feel like a quote out of context”
Best Imitation of Myself
“Come on baby
Now throw me
A right to the chin
Don’t just stare like
You never cared
I know you did
But you just smile
Like a bank teller
Blankly telling me
Have a nice life
Come on baby now
Throw me a right
To the chin
Just one sign that could
Show me that you give a
Shit
But you just smile politely
And I grow weaker and I
Said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say
So I will take it back”
Selfless, Cold and Composed
"So you wanted
To take a break
Slow it down some and
Have some space
Well, fuck you too
Give me my money back
Give me my money back
You bitch
I want my money back
And don’t forget to give
Me back my black T-shirt
I wish I hadn’t bought you
Dinner
Right before you dumped me
On your front porch"
Song for the Dumped
Am I gonna get slammed for quoting Alanis Morrissette?
we all love you just the way you are. . .
if you’re perfect.
And from the Doobie Brothers
*She held a place in his life
He never made her think twice.
As she rises to her apology anybody else would truely know
he’s watching her go.
What a fool believes he sees*
This from Earth Wind and Fire has a personal meaning to me.
That’s the way of the world
Plant your flowers and you’ll grow a pearl.
All quotes from memory. If I’m wrong I’m sure I’ll be corrected.
Man, do I feel old. The only songs I recognize are The Star Spangled Banner and Born to Run.
My (oldies) picks:
“…the army’s up the road. Salvation a la mode, and a cup of tea…”
"Whoa, thought it was a nightmare,
Lo, it’s all so true,
They told me, “Don’t go walkin’ slow
'Cause Devil’s on the loose.”
Better run through the jungle,
Better run through the jungle,
Better run through the jungle,
Woa, Don’t look back to see.
Thought I heard a rumblin’
Callin’ to my name,
Two hundred million guns are loaded
Satan cries, “Take aim!” "
“The old man is down the road…”
“And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band your in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.”
I’ll stop here.
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. -Bob Dylan
I know its only rock and roll, but I like it. - Jagger/Richards
Slow down, you move too fast. You’ve got to make the morning last, just skipping down the cobblestones, looking for love and feeling groovy. - P. Simon
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you. - G. Gershwin
Missed the Saturday dance, might have gone but what for? They’d have asked me about you, don’t get around much anymore. - D. Ellington
But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. - J. Cash
If I knew the way, I would take you home. -Hunter/Garcia
- resist temptation to post lines from most Paul Simon, Tori Amos and Janis Ian songs *
But you’ve been cold to me so long, I’m crying icicles instead of tears (Meatloaf)
She comes out of the sun with her silk dress running like a water colour in the rain (Al Stewart)
The life I live would even make a dead man yawn (Klaatu)
A crucifix clock: two miniature Romans, running on rails, appear every hour to bang in the nails, oh I got to have it Christ, please let me be the first on our block (Godley and Creme)
He’s here again, the man with the child in his eyes (Kate Bush)
Had to add this song…all the lines are good and some days it seems to sum up my life…
Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don’t let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
Many strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me
And the sun in the sky makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I’m here without a name in the palace of my shame
Love rescue me
In the cold mirror of a glass
I see my reflection pass
I see the dark shades of what I used to be
I see the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow
Yet I will fear no evil
I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me
I’ve conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
Love Rescue Me-- lyrics by Bono and Bob Dylan
More to add:
“All the world is in tune on a spring afternoon”
“We tripped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more”
“He’s got feet down below his knee.”
“And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
with the profits he made on your dreams.”
“I have a mansion forget the price
Ain’t never been there, they tell me it’s nice.”
“You have the world at your fingertips
No one can make it better than you.”
"Some babies grow in a peculiar way
It changed, it grew, and everybody knew
Semi-mojo
Who’s this kinky so-and-so? "
"On behalf of unknown heroes
For heroes there must be
In any land that crumbles
And sinks beneath the sea. "
“A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies.”
“Tits and ass.
Bought myself a fancy pair.
Tightened up the derriere.
Did the nose with it.
All that goes with it.”
“Food beyond compare
Food beyond belief
Mix it in a mincer
And pretend it’s beef
Kidney of a horse
Liver of a cat
Filling up with sausages
With this and that”
I can see you’re dressed to kill
I know I can’t wait until
Hallelujah, here she comes
I see you’re dressed in black
I guess I’m not coming back
Hallelujah, here she comes
Born and raised on the wrong side of town
You get so high you can’t come down
Hallelujah, Here She Comes-U2
Do you in the morning
Do you up right
Don’t want to stop
'til the middle of the night
Every single minute
Baby, baby thinking of you
You’re All I Wanna Do-Cheap Trick
Hello, I’ve waited here for you everlong
Everlong-The Foo Fighters
“And all the walls are closing in, I’m feeling stuck inside again/With something more divine than suicide, more generous than faith” - the Wildhearts
“Let’s go away at the weekend/Let’s just forget where we’ve been/Get some good sounds/Get some friends around/Like Lee Harvey Oswald and Ween!” - ibid
“Honey, you’d be mad to sit it out! Is your silence making you lonely? Or is your loneliness making you silent?” - ibid
“Death, though going on worldwide still takes you by surprise/Ok, you had to go, but I bet you didn’t know that you’d take a piece of me away with you, now it’s too dammned late to say I love you” - Silver Ginger 5
“Whatever happened to all of the Rock-n-Roll girls?” - ibid
“When you wake up laughing, you’ll have another day” - Kingston Wall
“Here I am, and this is how I live/I’m not taking no more than I give” - the Hellacopters
“Det blir 800 grader du kan liten på mej” - Ebba Grön
“Your racist pride is nothing but a game and YOU WILL LOSE for right is on the side of those who choose to fight for humankind” - Kreator
“And everything under the sun is in tune/But the sun is eclipsed by the moon” (Do we really need a cite for this one? Heh heh. I must have heard those lines a thousand times, but they never ever fail to give me serious chills…)
If Japanese can boil teas then where the fuck’s my royalties, huh?" - Aerosmith
"That’s last year there,
Still around in February.
Doesn’t see his shadow baby.
Doesn’t know to leave.
I’ll take it well.
Find quiet ways to gather;
Close around me what I’d rather
That there would have been" - **“Just Gone” by Loud Family
**
“Admiring paper on my wall.
How many really take the time?
There may not be that much creative latitude,
But that’s the challenge of design” - “Not Expecting Both Contempo And Classique” by Loud Family
“Alexander lived in times before the Duke of Earl.
The ancient greeks all said he threw the discus like a girl.
He didn’t have a healthy outlet for his anger,
So he took over the world.” - “Top Dollar Survivalist Hardware” by Loud Family
“When your body’s had
Enough of me and you’re laying flat out on the floor.
When you think I’ve loved you all I can
I’m gonna love you A LITTLE BIT MORE.”----DR. HOOK
IF HE WALKED IN TO MY LIFE----the WHOLE lyric.
“Did I stress the man
And forget the child.”-----EDIE GORME
“That’s why, darling, it’s incredible
That someone so UNFORGETTABLE
Thinks that I am unforgettable too.”----NAT/NATLIE COLE
“SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH
The honesty’s too much.”-----DAN FOGELBERG
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES----
“You may have been a headache
But you never were a bore.”----BOB HOPE/SHIRLEY ROSS
Oh my.
“When you see through love’s illusions
there lies the danger
And your perfect lover looks like a perfect fool
So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger…”
-Jackson Brown, “Fountain of Sorrow”
“They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
for trying to change the system from within.”
-Leonard Cohen, “First We Take Manhattan”
“If singing the blues is some kind of gift,
next time I’d rather have a toaster.”
-Bob Snider “Ordinary Day”
“There’s too many strong to do nothing that’s wrong
And not enough strong to do right.”
- Dave Gordon “Slip of the Hand”
“You can’t kill all the unbelievers.”
-Pete Seeger
“Life is like a beanstalk. Isn’t it?”
-Keith Reid (Procol Harum) “In Held Twas In I”
“Drank myself to sleep last night
Beerstains on my pillow”
-Ray Davies (Kinks)
“Whatever this stuff was
it sure is sauerkraut by now.”
-Peter Berryman “When Did We Have Sauerkraut?”
Les Mis! Woo-hoo! More specifically, “Master of the House.”
Let’s see, song quotes…
“…fussing and flapping in priestly black like a murder of crows.” (Sting)
“Though his Lordship’s station’s mighty,
Though stupendous be his brain…” (Gilbert and Sullivan)
“Mighty Maomoondog drifts across the grass,
Healing lullabies for Eastertime on Mars.
Paint your hats and shoes with flowers and with stars,
Singing in Metropolitan Operas!” (Alphaville)
“Socrates himself is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed.” (Monty Python)
“When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls, and the bat in the moonlight flies,
And inky clouds, like funeral shrouds, sail over the midnight skies–
When the footpads quail at the night-bird’s wail, and black dogs bay at the moon,
Then is the spectres’ holiday–then is the ghosts’ high noon!” (G&S, again)
“Don’t talk of love,
But I’ve heard the words before;
It’s sleeping in my memory.
I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.” (Simon and Garfunkel)
“Roses have thorns and shining waters mud
And cancer lurks deep in the sweetest bud
Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks of the wrongs we have done” (Sting, cribbing from Shakespeare)
In America, you’ll have food to eat
You won’t have to run through the jungle and scuff up your feet
You’ll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It’s great to be an American
“Sail Away” – Randy Newman
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part
that wonders what the part that
isn’t thinking isn’t thinking of. - TMBJ
I can hide out under there.
I just made you say underwear. - “Pinch Me”
Sit on my face and tell me that you love me! - Monty Python
Just what God needs: one more victim.
Why do we crucify ourselves?
- Tori Amos, Crucify
God, sometimes you just don’t come through.
- Tori Amos, God
Now, if we take a stand
We’ll find our promised land…
- Pet Shop Boys, Go West
She’s made you some kind of laughing stock
Because you dance to disco and you don’t like rock
- Pet Shop Boys, Can You Forgive Her?
Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked up into those blue eyes and knew
It was love, and now you can’t pretend
You’ve forgotten all the promises of that first friend…
- Pet Shop Boys, Can You Forgive Her?
If you only knew him when he used to dance
In his slicked-back hair and his poured-on pants
He could really strut his stuff and turn a head or two
Dance, little brother, dance like you used to do…
- Wyrd Sisters, Dance, Little Brother
You get what you give in life, that’s what they say
But no-one can tell me the price I must pay
For a moment of freedom, for a day without fear,
For that ounce of forgiveness, and the strength of a clear, clear heart
- Wyrd Sisters, Clear Heart
So blow the bridge down, blow the bridge down
In the dead of the night sink it into the ground
For the sake of the soul of Clayoquot Sound
Take a deep breath and blow the bridge down.
- Wyrd Sisters, Farewell to Clayoquot Sound
Mi nur bonfartas en la hxaoso kiam vivo frapas vange
Mi nur felichas kiam mi ploras, chu ne estas strange?
- Persone, Sole
Is it enough to live in hope
That one day we’ll be free,
Without this fear?
- Pet Shop Boys, Discoteca
We are meat and we are spirit
We have blood and we have grace
We have a will and we have muscle
A soul and a face
Why must we die?
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Why Must We Die
Tout est chaos à côté
Tous mes ideaux, des mots abîmés
Je cherche un âme qui pourra m’aider
Je suis d’une génération désenchantée…
- Mylène Farmer, Désenchantée
Tout seul dans mon placard, les yeux cernés de noir
A l’abri des regards je defie le hasard
Dans ce monde qui n’a ni queue ni tête, je n’affecte qu’à ma tête,
Un mouchoir au creux du pantalon, je suis Chevalier d’Éon…
- Mylène Farmer, Sans contrefaçon
Tour à tour on me chasse de vos fréquentations
Je n’admets qu’on menace mes résolutions
Je me fous bien des qu’en-dira-t-on, je suis chaméléon
Prenez garde de mes soldats de plomb, c’est eux qui vous tueront… - Mylène Farmer, Sans contrefaçon
Je ne comprends plus pourquoi
J’ai du sang sur mes doigts
Dors en paix, je te rassure
Je veillerai ta sépulture, mon amour
C’était plus fort que moi
Même si je sentais l’éffroi
Envahir tout mon être
Je te rejoindrai peut-être…
- Mylène Farmer, Beyond my control
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
- Savage Garden, Affirmation
I don’t like your fashion business, mister
I don’t like those drugs that keep you thin
I don’t like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin…
- Leonard Cohen, First We Take Manhattan
I reserve the right to live
My life this way, and I don’t give
A damn when other people say
I’ll pay the price that others pay
- Pet Shop Boys, Was It Worth It?
I look from my window down to the square
At workers still queueing patiently there
For market forces to provide
What history so far has denied
For a different kind of fate
Than to labour long and always wait
- Pet Shop Boys, To Step Aside
Shannon and her lover Sue danced and dined by candlelight
They were one of many couples getting intimate that night
Until the waiter asked them both to leave
And they stared at him in disbelief
As he ended their romantic night of bliss
Because they had the nerve to kiss, oh no!
Heterosexism strikes again
But you’ve got rights you must defend
So get together a group of your gayest friends
And go back to the scene of the crime
Hug and kiss and have a good time
That’s one way you can fight
When heterosexism strikes!
- Romanovsky and Phillips, When Heterosexism Strikes
Some people want to lock us up and throw away the key
They want to put us on a boat and ship us out to sea
I’m tired of arguing with idiots, I’m starting to agree
Their fascism’s beginning to make some sense to me
So go ahead and put us on an island,
Hawaii, the Bahamas, or Key West
We’ll have a lesbian, gay and bi-land
Cause lord knows we all deserve a rest! - Romanovsky and Phillips, Island Song
To sodomy, it’s between God and me
To S&M - La Vie Bohème! - Rent, “La Vie Bohème”